excited - Story 48265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the arena crackled with anticipation. The final auditions for the school play, "Romeo and Juliet," were over. Leo paced back and forth backstage, a knot of butterflies dancing in his stomach. He'd poured his heart and soul into his audition, hoping to land the role of Romeo. The thought of performing on stage, commanding the audience's attention, filled him with a powerful surge of energy.

He practically vibrated as he rushed to the casting call list. His heart leaped into his throat as he scanned the paper. He didn't see his name. A sense of emptiness washed over him. He felt as though someone had stolen his breath.

Emotion: excited

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.21 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.05

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion excited. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 excited stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the excited emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the excited vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.809
`!`	0.564
`excitedly`	0.500
`🤩`	0.491
`!"`	0.466

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.721
`ness`	-0.519
`😞`	-0.424
`grieve`	-0.310
`😔`	-0.300